drama
Drama manga heavily emphasize their characters' emotional development. Whether by experiencing the protagonist's emotional turmoil, viewing heated character interactions, or exploring a passionate romance, any manga that humanizes its characters through emphasizing their flaws qualifies as a Drama.
Hane Hari no Kimi
Status: Completed
Fragile souls and tragic fates collide in these haunting, gothic stories...
In this collection, a boy struggles with a dreaded affliction that comes between him and his true love; an orphan has the power to take on the sickness of others; a disfig... Show more
In this collection, a boy struggles with a dreaded affliction that comes between him and his true love; an orphan has the power to take on the sickness of others; a disfig... Show more
Akari wo Kudasai
Status: Completed
Four short stories, romantic and magic, simple and delicate, about the research of love. A mermaid, a young girl secretly in love with her stepfather, a wedding of two colleagues from same office. All these varied topics gather in this shôjo manga full wi... Show more
Yoru no Douwa
Status: Completed
A collection of Konno Kita's early oneshots; originally self-published and later collected in tankoubon format.
These works may be considered josei (borderline shoujo) due to the content.
Story 1 - The Road Home: An old man reminisces abo... Show more
These works may be considered josei (borderline shoujo) due to the content.
Story 1 - The Road Home: An old man reminisces abo... Show more
Denen Shounen
Status: Completed
Best friends Testu and Shige share a love of baseball and Tetsu’s cousin Mikako, but with thoughts of graduation looming on the horizon and the news that Mikako might be moving away, it seems those aren’t the feelings they have in common. Colored with ... Show more
Brilliant Blue
Status: Completed
Shozo comes to his injured father’s rescue by returning to his hometown and helping him run the family’s prestigious engineering firm. While at home Shozo is reunited with his childhood friend, Nanami, who is as spacey as ever, but wow has he gotten pr... Show more
Sea Princess Azuri
Status: Completed
Azuri is the mermaid princess and the only royal heir of the Orcans, a race of whale-merpeople that lives in a fantasy environment deep within the ocean. Azuri is betrothed to Prince Unagi, leader of the Eel people. Their marriage is arranged as a means to... Show more
Saint Marie
Status: Completed
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Dah-In Hyun is an ordinary student at Saint Marie’s private school. Before she knows it, Dah-In finds herself caught in a battle between good and evil being waged on the school grounds. Through the death of her best friend, Da... Show more
Dah-In Hyun is an ordinary student at Saint Marie’s private school. Before she knows it, Dah-In finds herself caught in a battle between good and evil being waged on the school grounds. Through the death of her best friend, Da... Show more
Hakuba no Oujisama
Status: Completed
Ozu Kotarou (25) recently changed his career from a white collar worker to a high school teacher. His new workplace is at Odawara High School, a girls only school. He starts off his first day by leaving a significant impression on the entire school by anno... Show more
Choujin Utada
Status: Completed
Utada Mamoru is a 32-year-old detective of Musashihara precinct who finds himself stifled by the corrupt police system. Then he is told by a black-suited man who identifies himself as Kanzaki, "You will die at 35." "We are ’supermen’ who... Show more
Diorama
Status: Completed
A collection of short stories by author Natsuo Kirino. It is mostly comprised of mystery and some supernatural stories, but the topics vary a lot.
Romance no Oukoku
Status: Completed
In the Romance no Oukoku series:
1) Romance no Oukoku
Just after graduating high school, Isaku gets married to a wonderful man...but she won't let him lay a finger on her! Irritated, her husband eventually leaves her...and thus our story begin... Show more
1) Romance no Oukoku
Just after graduating high school, Isaku gets married to a wonderful man...but she won't let him lay a finger on her! Irritated, her husband eventually leaves her...and thus our story begin... Show more
Senmu Shima Kousaku
Status: Completed
Another chapter in the ongoing saga of Salaryman Shima Kousaku.
In this story about Hatsushiba Electric Company Salaryman Shima Kousaku, a new position sends Kousaku on trips all around the world, beginning with New York. But wherever he goes, not... Show more
In this story about Hatsushiba Electric Company Salaryman Shima Kousaku, a new position sends Kousaku on trips all around the world, beginning with New York. But wherever he goes, not... Show more
Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu
Status: Completed
Takumi's wife dies at the age of 25, leaving behind their son, Yuji, and a very special picture book. It tells the story of those who die--remembered by the loved ones left behind--going to a planet called Archive, and return to visit when the rainy season... Show more
Eki Kara 5-fun
Status: Completed
From Stiletto Heels:
The story tells of love caught in a circle of a bad boy and an honor student, amnesia, an Internet message board, love at first sight, layoffs, Japanese archery, and a mother's love. Staged around Hanazono station and its surr... Show more
The story tells of love caught in a circle of a bad boy and an honor student, amnesia, an Internet message board, love at first sight, layoffs, Japanese archery, and a mother's love. Staged around Hanazono station and its surr... Show more
Mienai Kimi e no Okurimono
Status: Completed
Collection of 5 short stories:
1) Mienai Kimi e no Okurimono
Tsuchiya Haruka comes from a family where the members are able to see ghosts meets a ghost her age at her school. The ghost quickly discovers she has a crush on someone, and decides ... Show more
1) Mienai Kimi e no Okurimono
Tsuchiya Haruka comes from a family where the members are able to see ghosts meets a ghost her age at her school. The ghost quickly discovers she has a crush on someone, and decides ... Show more
Kasei Yakyoku
Status: Completed
The story takes place in old Tokyo, the Tokyo of August-September 1923 (Showa 12). At this moment in time, the city is a mixture of extremes... past and present, rich and poor, good and bad. This is a city where we see both horsecarts and motorcars, swords... Show more
Kachou Shima Kousaku
Status: Completed
Kachou Kousaku Shima is the first in a number of Japanese manga series about a fictional salaryman named Kousaku Shima, a Japanese white-collar worker who devotes his life to his company, Hatsushiba Electric. At the start of the long-running series, Shima ... Show more
Buchou Shima Kousaku
Status: Completed
Hatsushiba Electric president Kiichi Nakazawa, who has been Shima’s mentor since Nakazawa was Shima’s boss in the sales division, transfers Shima to Hatsushiba Trading, the firm’s affiliate, to keep Shima from being involved in a factional power stru... Show more